Obama Neighborhood Leadership Training

Karen Tomb, Margit Henderson, and I attended an outstanding Obama Neighborhood Leadership Training event Saturday at Overland High School from 10am-3:30pm along with several hundred other Obama supporters. Obama State Field Director Kevin Puleo and several other Obama campaign staff expertly led the training.

Karen, Margit, and I accepted responsibility for one of 5 "neighborhoods" within HD#6 including my Pct. #639 and 13 other precincts including the neighborhoods of Cory-Merrill, Bonnie Brae, Belcaro, Stokes, Polo Club, and Cherry Creek (basically everything from Colo. Blvd. to Univ., and I-25 to 6th Ave.)

The 3 of us each were given about 60 people to call to invite to an “Volunteer Team Action Meeting”, plus another 85 each to call as part of a separate "telephone canvass". So, that's about 435 total people in our "neighborhood" to call within the next several days.

We are holding our “Volunteer Team Action Meeting” this coming Saturday, August 9th, from 9-10 am at my home at 801 South Steele St. If you live within our "expanded neighborhood", or live somewhere else and would like to work with us anyway, please RSVP to jeffshart@comcast.net.

Our "core leadership team" will meet from 8:30-9:00 am with Julia Sanders, our new Obama campaign Field Organizer. All volunteers are invited to arrive at 9 am, we will meet with the whole group until about 10 am, and then attendees will be asked to canvass door to door or do voter registration for about 90 minutes, or do some phone banking for about 90 minutes.